I glued the front yesterday. Today I mostly just cleaned the joint as I didn't have time to really make the lower surface flat.

I glued the front also today. First I attached one side to the table and then prepared everything ready for the glue up. Once the glue was hot I heated the joint with a heat gun for a while and then spread the glue. Then I rubbed the second half over the first one until it stuck. When the two pieces fit well, this should be enough to get good joint. I was uncertain however and added some clamps anyways. The idea of the rub joint is that since one doesn't need to use clamps, the joint is stress free which should be better.

I also jointed the front. I had already tried to get it close so the start it pretty good. But some light is shining through. A few light passes with the plane was enough the get no light what so ever through the seam.

I want to get the grain going nicely on the front. That means two things for me. One is to get the two sides of the front to be good mirror images. Which means that I need to identify the same growth ring on both halves. Luckily that wasn't too difficult. Secondly I want to have the grain to run parallel to the centre joint. In order to do that I just followed a growth ring and marked it with a ruler. This bit of wood was quite out of parallel to being with.

I started with the front today. I want to proceed with the front before I decide what to do with the corners. I also want to know what to do with the corners before removing any layers from the mould or glueing the linings.

Before I can join the two halves of the front I want to check how the grain runs and if one end of the wood is better or worse. First thing to do is to plane the bottom surface flat. While doing this I noticed the front doesn't have an even colour. Not sure how well that comes out in the photos. I had noticed that the edge was darker than the rest but I though that was only the edge and also there maybe only on the surface. But seems like it is going all the way through. My plan is to varnish this one with a darker colour and I hope the varnish will hide any different in colour in the wood itself.